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06/22/2011

dtSearch, a supplier of enterprise and developer text retrieval software, announced version 7.67 of its product line, which expands the company's file parsers.

Parsers enable dtSearch to perform instant hit-highlighting in searching data, be it static or dynamic online content, and are available to developers via application programming interfaces in 64-bit and 32-bit Windows and Linux (C++), Java, and .NET up to version 4.

In version 7.67, file parsers have direct access to Microsoft PST files without having to go through MAPI. In effect, dtSearch can directly search items in Outlook PST stores such as messages, contacts, appointments, as well as file attachments, and display the hit-highlights in retrieved items. The new release also provides hit-highlights when searching PDF files in Adobe Reader X via a new dtSearch plug-in.

Litera, a manufacturer of content lifecycle management software, has granted Microsystems a non-exclusive license to Litera's metadata removal technology (U.S. Patent No. 7,895,276). The license grants Microsystems the rights to develop, sell, and market a server product for the removal of metadata from legal and business documents. So what happened to 3BView's 3BClean?

Microsystems has the exclusive rights to distribute 3BClean, a server-based metadata cleaning product manufactured in the U.K., in the U.S. Now, however, 3BView's server product is sold under a license with U.S. Patent No. 7,895,276 from Litera Technology LLC.

Seems that Litera was awarded U.S. Patent 7,895,276 in February 2011 for a server-based technology to remove metadata from files attached to e-mail sent by any e-mail client, including web-mail and smartphones. The patent covers server-based metadata cleaning that Litera markets as Metadact e.

Metadact e removes metadata from documents like Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, image and ZIP files sent via Outlook or another e-mail program. The product can implement a centralized metadata cleaning policy, as well as a policy to allow individual users control over their own e-mail attachment cleaning. In effect, Metadata e can remove track changes in Word documents, hidden cells in spreadsheets, speaker notes in PowerPoint files, and more.

Bottom line, the Litera license grant allows Microsystem customers to continue to operate 3BClean without infringing Litera's patent in the U.S. And I will certainly have to put Metadata e on my list of products to review this year.

06/20/2011

Guidance Software, maker of digital investigations and e-discovery software, upgraded EnCase eDiscovery to version 4.2 today. The new version continues to hone and define new features designed to make the product easier to use and includes a new graphical user interface for front-end processing, more workflow capabilities, and collects hosted Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint content.﻿

06/16/2011

Nuance Communications, a provider of speech and imaging products, recently announced that it has closed the acquisition of Equitrac, a provider of print management and cost recovery software.

The Equitrac acquisition adds to Nuance's global channel partners for multifunction printer (read: scan) management, which now includes Canon, Xerox, Konica Minota, Ricoh and Hewlett-Packard. That pretty much covers the map. So if you are not talking to Nuance about managing your internal scanning workflow, you are printing too much.

Sanction Solutions, a manufacturer of litigation support products and services, introduced Sanction 3, a software application designed to organize, manage and present evidence and other materials in a litigation matter.

According to Mike Hahn, managing director of Sanction Solutions, the company did not simply polish its last version 2.9 for a new release. Version 3 allows the simultaneous handling of multiple exhibits and includes new transcript ingestion tools, as well as new facilities to manage evidence and simplify project workflow.

06/14/2011

ZL Technologies, a provider of e-discovery, records management, and archiving software for law firms and corporations, has taken the company's on-premise Unified Archive software and, together with Sunguard Availability Services, made it available from the cloud in a software-as-a-service model. ... [MORE]

Wolters Kluwer hopes the acquisition will extend the company's custom offers in legal compliance and governance, which already include CT Corporation and BizFilings. The terms of the deal were not disclosed and the close of the acquisition is still subject to regulatory approval.

NRAI is headquartered in Princeton, N.J., and has approximately 160 employees in offices across the U.S. It provides national and international registered agent services (e.g., service of process, corporate and regulatory filings) and specializes in compliance and governance services for small and mid-sized businesses and the legal community.

06/09/2011

OpenText RightFax 10 now includes enhanced security for sending and receiving faxes from cloud-based office systems including Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps. The new version of RightFax integrates with both Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online system to route faxes to user's desktops.

Other new features in version 10 include:

• optical character resolution to support searchable, PDF fax output;

• barcode routing capabilities; and

• support for a Branch Office Server to run fax servers independently of a central location while continuing to meet corporate policies and regulations for fax document handling and retention -- the Branch Office Server also works with Cisco's ISR G2 SRE Module.

Nexidia, a provider of audio search and review software, announced that the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission has completed the installation of Nexidia's Audio Discovery software. The SEC will use Nexidia to review audio content produced in its investigations of the financial industry.

LexisNexis announced the launch of a mobile service with its new version 11 of PCLaw, legal billing and accounting software for law firms. The mobile service, called PCLaw 11 Mobility, is designed to work with any browser on smartphones or mobile devices running Apple iOS, Google Android, and RIM BlackBerry and connect to an on-premise instance of PCLaw, which can import data into QuickBooks and ingest output from a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner in one click. ... [MORE]